Comprehension Quotes

• If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Suicide, Peace, Military

  Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.1098, Best Books on

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• The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

  Robertson Davies

  Educational, Knowledge, Eye

  Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin

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• Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

  Rose Kennedy

  Anxiety, Atmosphere, Anxious

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• All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Intelligent, Rise To Power

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Able, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

  Stephen Covey

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein, Harry Woolf (1980). “Some strangeness in the proportion: a centennial symposium to celebrate the achievements of Albert Einstein”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Travel, Crazy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Too often we judge people based on our own backgrounds and experiences, but when you understand people's stories, it's easier to understand their demeanor.

  Joel Osteen

  Judging, People, Understanding

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• I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

  Noto

  Emotional, Understanding, Intellectual

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• An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Taken, Reader, Allegory

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• Human life is beyond comprehension.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Life, Inspire, Humans

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• We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.

  Wendell Berry

  Wendell Berry (2001). “Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition”, Counterpoint Press

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• No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.

  Bob Proctor

  Life, Success, Wise

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 19, 2017

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• In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Virtue, Values

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.60, Penguin

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• On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Fighting, Faith Religion

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.42, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The majority believes that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound. This is incorrect. What is hard to understand is what is immature, unclear and often false. The highest wisdom is simple and passes through the brain directly into the heart

  Viktor Schauberger

  Wisdom, Nature, Believe

  Viktor Schauberger “Living Energies”, Рипол Классик

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• Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Pain, Struggle, Blessing

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• I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.

  Freeman Dyson

  Mind, Religion, Scales

  "Progress In Religion". Freeman Dyson's Acceptance Speech for the Templeton Prize at the Washington National Cathedral, www.edge.org. May 16, 2000.

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• Time and reflection... modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.

  Paul Cezanne

  Reflection, Vision, Littles

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• There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!

  Seneca the Younger

  Eye, Science, Power

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• Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there.

  Paul Gauguin

  People, Looks, Sides

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• In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Science, Medicine

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• Only by following out the injunction of our great predecessor [William Harvey] to search out and study the secrets of Nature by way of experiment, can we hope to attain to a comprehension of 'the wisdom of the body and the understanding of the heart,' and thereby to the mastery of disease and pain, which will enable us to relieve the burden of mankind.

  Ernest Starling

  Nature, Pain, Heart

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• Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art.

  Anton Webern

  Art, Mean, Law

  Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp

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